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Mini tut : Getting Slackware Linux to use a 2.6 Kernel

First you need to install Slackware Linux. I recommend reading my tutorials as they go step by step.

After the installation is complete, login as root and mount the Slackware installation disc #2.

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

cd /mnt/cdrom/testing/packages/linux-2.6.10

Install 2.6 kernel:

You can 'ls' to see the available files, but you want to be sure you have the kernel, kernel modules, and makeinitrd installed. You can install it while you're installing Slackware Linux on your box. mkinitrd is what make an initial ramdisk.

cd /mnt/cdrom/testing/packages/linux-2.6.10

installpkg kernel*.tgz

cd /boot

mkinitrd -c -k 2.6.10 -m reiserfs

This will create the /boot/initrd-tree containing the initrd filesystem. It will also create the actual initrd (initrd.gz).

you can enter 'ls' in /boot to see the files we now have. Among others, you should see 'vmlinuz-generic-2.6.10' and 'initrd.gz'.

Now to make the changes to /etc/lilo.conf, use your favorite text editor. I prefer 'vi'. Add the following under your previous kernel:

Dude, I beg of you do me one favor... This isn't me picking on you either...

Please, write just one, just one tutorial that is about something, that you can't pick up with 30 seconds of reading a book or looking at any linux site.... Something that actually requires thought, something that requires skill, and most of all something thta requires you to actually not use VI and use a real editor to edit it.

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Quite funny actually... the same process just worked for package ZYX... Hmmm...

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Originally posted here by whizkid2300 *smack* damnit that is it.... as popeye said it...

Dude, I beg of you do me one favor... This isn't me picking on you either...

Please, write just one, just one tutorial that is about something, that you can't pick up with 30 seconds of reading a book or looking at any linux site.... Something that actually requires thought, something that requires skill, and most of all something thta requires you to actually not use VI and use a real editor to edit it.

I didn't take it that way. Don't worry about t.

The reason was I had problems with it at first and this worked for me, so I wrote it out. In case someone else had the same problem. Like my slackware Laptop thread, it took me 3 months to find a way for it to work right. It can't use fdisk or cfdisk for some reason.